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European Union Foreign Affairs Journal European Union Foreign Affairs Journal eQuarterly for European Foreign, Foreign Trade, Development, Security Policy, EU-Third Country Relations and Regional Integration (EUFAJ) N° 04 – 2010 ISSN 2190-6122 Editorial ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Eastern Partnership - Beyond Initiative, But Not A Strategy Yet Olena Snigyr ............................................................................................................................... 5 The Lisbon NATO Summit: What's New? Guy Vinet .................................................................................................................................. 12 Together Towards the Future: Euro-Atlantic Security Approaches After Lisbon and Astana. A View from Albania Edval Zoto ............................................................................................................................... 20 The Return of Skills to West Africa: Towards EU and ECOWAS Policy Coherence Anne Sofie Westh Olsen ............................................................................................................ 30 Migration and European Policy of Multiculturalism - A Russian View Igor Sergeyewitch Metelev ...................................................................................................... 49 Foreign Direct Investment in Serbia - Climate, Problems, Sectors Jasmina Murić .......................................................................................................................... 57 EU and Serbia Sign Bilateral WTO Accession Agreement ..................................................... 99 Agenda ………………………………………………………………………………………102 Standpoint. By Olivier Védrine. Terrorist Threats and Democracy: What Answers for Europe? .................................................................................................... 105 European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 4–2010 www.eufaj.eu, e-mail: eufaj@libertas-institut.com 1 European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 4–2010 www.eufaj.eu, e-mail: eufaj@libertas-institut.com 2 European Union Foreign Affairs Journal (abbreviated: EUFAJ) eQuarterly for European Foreign, Foreign Trade, Development, Security Policy, EU-Third Country Relations and Regional Integration ISSN 2190-6122 Published by: LIBERTAS – Europaeisches Institut GmbH, Lindenweg 37, 72414 Rangendingen, Germany Phone +49 7471 984996-0, fax +49 7471 984996-19, e-mail: eufaj@libertas-institut.com Managing Director: Ute Hirschburger Registered at AG Stuttgart, HRB 243253, USt ID no.: DE811240129, Tax no.: 53 093 05327 Internet: www.eufaj.eu, www.libertas-institut.eu Subscription rate: zero. EUFAJ can be downloaded for free in the Internet; see www.eufaj.eu. This experiment will be under review at the end of 2011. * * * Chief Editor: Hans-Jürgen Zahorka Editor: Olivier Védrine, Paris, France Editorial Advisory Board: Židas Daskalovski, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science at Kliment Ohridski University in Bitola, president of the CRPM think-tank in Skopje, Macedonia Martin Pontzen, Dr. rer. pol., economist, Bundesbank Director, German Federal Bank, Frankfurt/Main, Germany All authors are responsible for their published texts. If no author is mentioned, the Chief Editor is responsible. All texts published under a name do not necessarily represent the view of the editors or Advisory Board members. EUFAJ is committed to different views and a public discussion. * * * Copyright: Copyright requests are welcome. Reprints of certain contributions are free of charge, for others a license fee may have to be negotiated. Please ask the publisher for copyright permission. Proposal for quotation: EUFAJ, 2-2010, then number of page (e.g. EUFAJ, 2-2010, 32) Papers, articles, reports, contributions: They should be sent to the Chief Editor by e-mail and as attachment in Word format (not in PDF). EUFAJ follows a generous policy towards authors, who may decide themselves if they write a scientific or more practical article, or with or without footnotes (please no end notes). We reserve the right of adding annotations and commenting shortly. No guarantee for unsolicited articles which, however, may remain in our archive. All contributions are requested in English language; abstracts in other languages are possible. EUFAJ is published in English. European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 4–2010 www.eufaj.eu, e-mail: eufaj@libertas-institut.com 3 Editorial Dear readers, From this issue we have added an additional service for you, our “Agenda” which contains some important seminars, conferences etc. Which are not always well known in Europe and the world. If ever you want to feed this column with your or others‟ events, please write them to eufaj@libertas-institut.com, as far ahead as possible. We often use in EUFAJ content clusters, not in every issue, but when there is an opportunity for it. Cluster elements from different countries underline the subjectivity of policies, and if they come from outside of the EU they may mirror its impression. So this issue contains Eastern Partnership (from a Ukrainian point of view), NATO and OSCE after their last summit meetings (a general and an Albanian point of view), the issue of migration (EU and ECOWAS policies, but also a Russian view on the EU), of Foreign Direct Investment in and WTO accession of Serbia. And, again, for some of these contributions we need some understanding, but as it is known we try to be a kind of forum for many even dissenting voices. As to the appearance date, we once more thank our readers for their patience. With best regards, Hans-Jürgen Zahorka European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 4–2010 www.eufaj.eu, e-mail: eufaj@libertas-institut.com 4 Eastern Partnership – Beyond Initiative, But Not A Strategy Yet By Olena Snigyr Olena Snigyr has a Ph. D. in Political Science and is at present Head of Sector for Europe in the Foreign Policy Department of the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine. She has about 10 years of professional experience of analytical and scientific work in the sphere of government service and is author of many scientific articles and analytical reports on issues of European policy, European security, Black Sea regional development, foreign policy of Russia, foreign policy of Ukraine. Besides one publication in Slovak and many publications in Ukrainian language she is also co-author of "Ukraine in the 21st century. Strategy of Reforms and Social Consolidation”, www.niss.gov.ua/public/File/2010_Book/Poslanya_2010/eng.pdf 2011 may be a year of new opportunities for the European Union (EU) in developing a strategic vision regarding its policies in Eastern Europe and also for Ukraine in the context of its commitment to European integration. This is not just about the final stage of negotiations on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement (AA) that includes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Zone (DCFTZ). This year a revision of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) also takes place, in particular the EU's Eastern Partnership (EP)1 initiative, with updated EP renewal recommendations to be presented at the EP Summit, which is scheduled for autumn this year. Two years of EP development showed that the EU considers this format as a policy for developing relations with six countries of Eastern Europe. And, despite the shortcomings of the EP, the EU still considers it necessary to continue to adhere to this format. That is why the rejection of the EP by Ukraine, typical of the early implementation of this initiative, is not relevant today. A constructive approach from the Ukrainian side lies in common with the EU to search for the ways to reform the EP and in defining possibilities to make qualitative changes to the EP to increase its effectiveness based on the comparison of strategic goals of Ukraine and the EU. 1 EP does here not mean „European Parliament― but Eastern Partnership. European Union Foreign Affairs Journal – N° 4–2010 www.eufaj.eu, e-mail: eufaj@libertas-institut.com 5 Relations with Eastern European countries constitute an important direction of EU foreign policy. Herewith, the EU still has no holistic strategic vision for its foreign policy in Eastern Europe. In addition, the dynamics of the development of political processes in Eastern Europe leads to the perpetual transformation of EU approaches to the development of its eastern policy and postpones its conceptual design. Within a decade, the EU has always built its strategy for Eastern European Countries under the European Neighbourhood Policy. This policy could not provide an adequate response to challenges in EU relations with its neighbours. Discussions on upgrading the ENP, which began in 2006, foresaw the need for a separate EU strategy development for the Eastern dimension. One attempt was made to design regional cooperation through the launch of the EU initiative called "Black Sea Synergy‖. The actual incapacity of this initiative caused further discussions on the EU Eastern policy and the establishment of the Eastern Partnership. At the time of the founding summit of EP in Prague in 2009, the EU decided to transfer the relationship with all six countries of Eastern Europe into a single format of the Association Agreement with the creation of a Deep and Comprehensive FTZ and into the multilateral dimension of regional cooperation issue in a number of cooperation mechanisms at the sectoral level. The most important part of the Polish-Swedish
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